Cool idea !! Can you sidestep any of those other steps below ? Cheers, Andy! On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Frans Lawaetz wrote: > If you put the e1000 module in the tmp directory *beforehand* (i.e., > during the creation of the custom initrd.img) you are able to sidestep > the extraction problems. > > I imagine this might solve other module issues. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frans Lawaetz [mailto:frans.lawaetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > To get the e1000 module onto the regular bootnet.img disk I did the > following... > > First, the usual routine of gunzipping initrd.img, and then > gunzip&cpio the modules.cgz included within. I removed a few > networking modules that I didn't need, and added e1000.o that I took > from the supplemental network driver disk. > I carefully copied and pasted the definitions from modinfo on the NIC > driver disk to module-info on the bootnet.img disk .. and did the same > for the pcitab file. > I then cpio'd, gzip'd everything back together and made myself > a new boot floppy.
